DEMPO MOUNTAIN CHARM

Looked, down, up, and researching travel charm Mount Dempo. Green carpet of tea gardens so fresh. It appears the person wearing the hat lined with baskets over their shoulders, picking tea leaf. Dense green forests become green tea with a blue border Dempo mountain peak with white clouds.

Accompanied by a cup of coffee-flavored typical Pagar Alam, beautiful natural scenery in the morning on the porch Mountain Lodging Gare Pagar Alam, will captivate anyone who sees it. Has not satisfied the eye could see. Would be moved to step foot in between the tea plantation, looking for a nutritious tea parasite was in between the sticks of tea, accompanied by the fresh cool morning and the sun began to sweep the ridge.

Mount Dempo who has a height of 3159 meters above sea level, is the highest area in South Sumatra Province. Travel for approximately 6 hours from Palembang to Pagar Alam also be an interesting experience. Entering the fenced area by the nature of these mountains, valleys and winding road with cliffs on the roadside to welcome into Pagar Alam.

Not only the beauty of Mount Dempo's famous mountain route also became a byword among the mountaineers. "The challenges are varied, and a bonus point (even) a little," said the mountaineer. Gurgling sound of water and various animal sounds of the mountain dwellers would accompany the climbers.

Set up camp in a stretch of Merapi summit, before looking at the crater Dempo, also the main attraction. Sipping warm coffee, a campfire, sparkling city lights visible from that height. Especially when the new year arrives, it will be filled expanse of the climbers. Welcoming the new year at the peak of Merapi Dempo, seemed to have become a tradition.

The area is 300 kilometers from Palembang is also loaded with the charm of ancient history. The stones of an ancient relic that was estimated to be 2500 to 3000 this year are in some villages at the foot of Mount Dempo. Stone shapes also varied, from the mortar, animals, humans, and there is also a house-shaped stone. Megalith is what brings tourists from Europe often came to the mountains of Sumatra's highest mountain chain is.

Tourism potential is not depleted in Pagar Alam. Waterfalls in the mountains is not yet fully developed, not even the possibility has not been found. Like the recent discovery of a waterfall, a new beauty unfold.

After satisfying tourist interest in the natural charm of Mount Dempo. The tourists can visit the traditional market in downtown. Kudu, a typical weapon Pagar Alam society into the hands of your favorite fruit, in addition to coffee, tea, mistletoe tea, and avocado.

Coffee and tea-producing town since the Dutch colonial era was inaugurated as the city flower. Home pages, schools and parks filled with flowers. Flower show held in the town square every year.

Seed Jarai Hall was not only planted orchids, chrysanthemum cultivation conducted there. make the city as the city flower Pagaralam Sriwijaya Earth.

Wealth of tourist potential is greeted friendly locals. They are ready to greet tourists, lodging improve services, roads extended and refined. Likewise the forest, with tree planting Bambang, maintained its sustainability

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